Vadodara City Election Result 2022: BJP's Manisha Vakil has won the election, defeating Congress' Gunvantray Parmar by a margin of 98,597 votes. Election in Vadodara City assembly constituency took place in the second phase of Gujarat assembly election 2022. The results were declared on December 8.
In 2017 elections, BJP's Manishaben Vakil won the seat against Congress' Anil Parmar by a margin of over 52,000 votes. FULL COVERAGE
VADODARA CITY ASSEMBLY ELECTION RESULTS (2017)
| Candidate's Name |
Party |
Level |
Votes |
Vote Rate % |
Margin |
| Manisha Vakil |
BJP |
Winner |
116,367 |
62.14% |
52,383 |
| Anil Parmar |
INC |
Runner Up |
63,984 |
34.17% |
Meanwhile, teams of thousands of workers and volunteers are keeping social media pages of different political parties abuzz like a well-oiled machine to run campaigns and garner support of target voters for the next month's Assembly elections in Gujarat.
If the ruling BJP relies on its established network of followers on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram, the opposition Congress and the AAP are using popular messaging platform WhatsApp extensively to reach out to voters at the grassroots level.
BJP's social media campaigns are focused on highlighting the achievements of the party-led government in Gujarat during the last two decades.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi served as Gujarat CM from 2001 to 2014.
The saffron outfit is also tapping on the emotive issue of Gujarati pride through the newly-launched campaign "Aa Gujarat Me Banavyu Chhe (I have created this Gujarat).
The Congress, on the other hand, is harking back to the era when it ruled the state, the contributions its governments made for development of the state and how the BJP has done nothing in its 27 years of rule, a party office-bearer told.
